Thanks for the feedback - I didn't know about the Android distribution for the Pi!
Regarding the cost, I'm not so sure. For the likes of a Raspberry PI I would also have to source and buy sensors, flash, battery, charging circuit etc. As a consumer I can buy a budget smart phone (e.g. Huawei Y3 - I bought one yesterday to experiment with) for $43. Considering it already has flash etc on board, from what I can see this makes it more fully featured and cheaper than the likes of a Raspberrry Pi. Furthermore, I could buy bulk wholesale from a mobile phone manufacturer direct, and even say that I don't need the case of the screen, I'm sure that the $43 could come down quite a lot further. Trying to design, manufacture, write software for, and support my own board for less than this would be a challenge! On 4 November 2016 at 13:24, Igor Kalkov <[email protected]> wrote: > Android can be a good choice if you want to speed up the development > process (Java is easier to learn than C/C++). Android has more easy-to-use > libraries and components available. I can understand why it MIGHT be a good > idea to work with it. > Nevertheless, Crt Mori is right: its way cheaper to buy a small embedded > board. What about Raspberry Pi 3? BTW: there exist an Android distribution > for it! (Google for RTAndroid). > -- -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-porting" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
